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Chapter 523 The girl's grades were not ideal.

In late April, as spring reached its peak, Jun Matsuoka walked out of the cafeteria alone, inhaling the faint fragrance of flowers and grass along the road.

The two girls walking ahead were talking about the latest popular songs, and unsurprisingly, he heard the name Yosuke Kurusu.

"Yoshi-chan's new song is really good! I'm planning to buy her new album after school today!"

"Hey~ how about I go shopping with you..."

"Weren't you going on a date with your boyfriend?"

"We just broke up yesterday..."

As Jun Matsueda listened to the girls' plans after school, he walked up the stairs.

The girls turned and disappeared into the second-floor corridor. He walked alone up to the somewhat secluded fourth floor and pushed open the back door of the classroom.

The classroom was bustling with activity during lunchtime. Several girls in the front row pushed their desks together and chatted while eating their bento boxes. The boys were playing some kind of game, and Sakamuro Ken was clearly having a great time.

Jun Matsue walked past Tomatsu Yuka. The girl was holding chopsticks. She hadn't finished her lunch yet. She just turned around and nodded to the boy. Her slightly puffed cheeks made people want to poke them with their fingers.

The boy walked to his seat and sat down. Tomatsu Yuka picked up her water cup, took a sip, swallowed the food in her mouth, and then looked at him.

"What did Chun-kun have for lunch?"

"Spaghetti bolognese." Jun Matsueda glanced at Haruka Mochizuki sitting on the other side, who was still pouting as she did her homework.

"Hmm," the girl blinked, "The cafeteria portions probably aren't enough, right? How about some more chicken?"

The boy placed a tissue in his hand, and she picked up the remaining karaoke chicken nuggets from the bento box and placed them in his palm.

Jun Matsue put the whole piece into his mouth, chewed, and nodded. "The chicken is very tender and tastes good."

"It tastes even better when it's hot!"

Although the girl said this, she didn't look very happy. The boy thought it might be because they no longer ate lunch together—back then, she still had the right to have food fed to her directly.

Tomatsu Yuka stared blankly at the empty bento box for a while, then picked it up and left the classroom to wash it in the restroom.

Jun Matsue sighed inwardly as he watched her retreating figure, then picked up the paper bag he had just put in the drawer.

He walked over to Mochizuki Haruka's seat and placed the paper bag on top of her workbook. "Here's the rice ball you wanted."

"The sakura shrimp flavor is a spring special. Forget about the quiz, just eat it while it's hot."

The girl put down her pen, stretched silently, took a rice ball from the paper bag in front of her, and took a bite.

"The seasoning is pretty good."

Mochizuki Haruka chewed slowly. In addition to sakura shrimp, the rice ball also contained salted kelp and shredded cabbage, which suited her taste quite well.

"Aren't you thirsty if you only eat rice balls?" Jun Matsue sat back down in his seat, admiring the way she ate her food in small bites.

“I have coffee.”

The girl took a can of coffee out of the drawer, and the pull tab made a crisp sound as it was opened.

"Black coffee and rice balls." The boy looked at the words "Extra Strong!" on the metal can and said, "It doesn't seem like a good combination."

"As long as it's edible, that's fine." Mochizuki Haruka held the rice ball while still looking at the questions on the paper, causing Matsueda Jun to frown slightly.

Isn't she studying a little too hard?
Tomatsu Tomoka and Kominato Shoko, who was holding her report card, returned to the classroom together. The girl put her clean lunchbox into her drawer and watched the female teacher walk up to the podium.

"The results of the last mock exam are out!" The woman waved the report card in her hand, and a chorus of voices, a mixture of joy and fear, rose from below the podium. Ms. Kominato called out each name, and after distributing the report cards, the school bell rang. She looked at the students sitting in the classroom.

"Everyone did quite well in this mock exam. Keep it up! Those who have shown significant decline, please reflect on your performance."

"I won't take up your lunch break. Remember to take breaks when you're studying!"

After watching his homeroom teacher leave the classroom, Jun Matsuoka first carefully looked at his report card—the deviation values ​​of each subject had not declined much, and his math score had increased by 0.5, which was considered a mediocre result.

He looked up to his right, where Tomatsu Yuka was also looking at her report card. Her expression was indifferent, without even a smile.

Ms. Kominato said that some students' grades have dropped significantly. Could it be that Tomatsu was affected by the breakup?
"How did Tomatsu do this time?" he asked, moving closer to the girl.

"Nothing has changed." She handed over the report card in her hand.

Jun Matsue glanced at the results and saw that his grades hadn't changed much; he was still first in the entire grade.

"You performed consistently well." He breathed a sigh of relief. "The math exam was quite difficult this time, and Yuka still managed to get this score. It seems I can confidently ask you for help with questions from now on."

“Mathematics is mainly time-consuming…” Tomatsu Yuka smiled, “so it’s definitely better to communicate with each other more.”

"Yuhua, here are the English reading comprehension questions from the mock exam—"

Mimi Mizushima, who was sitting at the table in front of the girl, turned around and asked a question. Jun Matsueda turned his gaze to the other side, where Haruka Mochizuki was drinking coffee with her head tilted back, her expression not very pleasant.

"Did you fail your exam?"

The girl put down her coffee with considerable force, the metal can hitting the table with a dull thud, and a few drops of coffee splashed onto her report card.

"Look for yourself." She handed over her report card, and the boy looked at it again.

"Weren't your grades pretty good?"

"You scored so high yourself, how can you say my grades are not bad?" Mochizuki Haruka rolled her eyes. "I'm still a long way from getting into Tokyo University."

“At least the gap is narrowing, isn’t it?” Jun Matsue comforted her gently.

Tomatsu Yuka, who was behind him, was still teaching the girls a math problem, but her gaze had already drifted over to him.

"It's shrinking too slowly." The girl's tone was somewhat irritated. "It feels like my grades haven't improved much lately."

"Because you've been learning increasingly difficult material lately," the boy said gently. "Of course, you can't expect to see results as quickly as before."

Mochizuki Haruka still had a tense expression. After a while, she stuffed her report card into the drawer, took another sip of coffee, and then started working on her problems again.

Matsueda Jun looked away, tidied his desk, and was about to take a nap when the girl handed him her black cat pillow.

"I haven't been taking afternoon naps lately, so you can use this pillow."

"Aren't you afraid I'll drool?" he joked deliberately.

Mochizuki Haruka shook her head. She was still staring at the practice questions, with only her arm holding the pillow hanging in the air.

"You never drool in your sleep."

"...Then I'll give it a try."

Jun Matsue took the pillow and placed it under his arm. It was soft, fluffy, and very comfortable to lie on.

If things continue like this, it might not be good for Mochizuki... He thought to himself, staring at the black cushion.

　The plans have changed; it feels more comfortable to break things up.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)